John Baffes
World Bank

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Going Against the Grain on the Post-2005 Commodity Price Boom

Emerging market demand was the main cause of the post-2005 increase in metal and energy prices. But, contrary to conventional wisdom, it did not play a key role in the parallel spike in food prices.

  • John Baffes
· April 19, 2012
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Learning from the “Cotton Problem”: Settling Trade Disputes

Though the U.S.-Brazil agreement on cotton subsidies prevented a damaging “trade war,” it nonetheless exposed the limitations of the current WTO dispute settlement system.

  • John Baffes
· June 17, 2010
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A U.S.-Africa Dialogue on the Cotton Trade
July 20, 2009

Despite significant barriers to trade in cotton, the issue failed to garner serious attention at last year’s WTO trade ministers meeting. Representatives from the U.S. and Africa’s four major cotton producers discuss the challenges facing this issue.

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  • John Baffes
  • Elena Bryan
  • Uri Dadush
  • Crawford Falconer
  • Carol Goodloe
  • Marc Lange
  • Gary Clyde Hufbauer
  • Mamadou Sanou
  • Nadjindar Titdjebaye
  • Terry Townsend